388 Erie Street
Stratford, ON
N5A 2N4
Non-Emergency Phone Number: (519) 271-3212
Fax: (519) 271-9511
Our trained communicators include four full-time dispatchers and three secretary/dispatchers working shift rotations similar to the Suppression Division. They are available, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Our communicators:
Stratford is a 9-1-1 community with links to police agencies and the provincial Central Ambulance Communications Centre (CACC). Emergency response is generally confined to the City's corporate limits; however, our department is also part of the Perth County Mutual Aid System, allowing any fire department to provide assistance during an extraordinary event at no cost to the municipality.
Communicators monitor four UHF radio frequencies. The network has several communications towers with ranges of up to 30 kilometres in surrounding counties. Our radio complement includes: